whua'happend?
i'm in the hong kong central library right now.
i was nervous opening up everyone's photo lj-cuts; i thought they'd be indecent, and i'd be caught.
anyway, it's been nice so far. this keyboard is in chinese.. and so is most of the screen. whod'athunkit.
we haven't done much. at least not touristy stuff. which is alright. i went swimming yesterday morning at the pool in the apartment building. it's not on the rooftop, but it's on A rooftop. it's pretty high up nonetheless. it was really smoggy out. there was a demonstration going on. pro-democracy. lots of people. police say 200,000 but organizers say 500,000. they were just outside the apartment. they were giving out electric fans. i think the outside world has a lot of misconceptions about china, and hong kong.
i used cantonese yesterday to a stranger. and she knew what i was saying. it was nice.
my grandma is pretty ill.
my grandpa has been buying a lot of property lately. he wants one of the grandkids to .. take over for him when he goes. and keep the assets growing. he wants one to move back to hong kong and "take over the business". it's strange to talk about it though. i dont' like writing in this in a public library. but anyway. he doesn't want to have his money divided up and just -- i think the guy beside me is trying to see what's on my screen. he's stretched out really strangely.. mabye it's because he thinks i'm tryign to read what's on his. because i was. -- spent. he wants to keep it growing. one of my uncles describes says it's as if he's trying to build a dynasty. i think he's recently come to realize the finality of death, and wants to feel as if he'll live on somehow. i guess its' teh same thing. when we talk about it though, and who will take over and so on, it feels very political. i've never wondered before, if money would make me fight with my brothers. i can't see it happening, but i was imagining what it would be like to be the one to take over my grandfather's assets. when we're all older, would everyone else expect me to always help them out when they need extra money? to pay for their children's educations? it'd be a tough spot to be in, especially since in that case, i'm not the patriarch of the family (that'd be a pretty difficult task for a female to accomplish anyway) but from the same generation as them. or maybe even younger..
seriously, this guy is so obvious. the guy beside me.
mark got new glasses. they're a little thick rimmed. he has fuzzy hair.
yesterday andrew wondered if generally, asian guys are less better looking than caucasian ones. i think it's just growing up with a different standard.
there are a lot of pictures of yoshi, my seattle cousin's newborn son, in the apartment. he's a really really chubby baby. his head is pretty much full-size already.
i like hong kong more this time around than last. i can see myself living here, at least for a little while.
we might be making a trip to see some pink dolphins. i don't really want to. whale-watching and stuff like that seems so disruptive to me.
i'm tired of the way things have been. i think it's time i moved out of childhood and started to really get going with my life.
this is nice library.
i was nervous opening up everyone's photo lj-cuts; i thought they'd be indecent, and i'd be caught.
anyway, it's been nice so far. this keyboard is in chinese.. and so is most of the screen. whod'athunkit.
we haven't done much. at least not touristy stuff. which is alright. i went swimming yesterday morning at the pool in the apartment building. it's not on the rooftop, but it's on A rooftop. it's pretty high up nonetheless. it was really smoggy out. there was a demonstration going on. pro-democracy. lots of people. police say 200,000 but organizers say 500,000. they were just outside the apartment. they were giving out electric fans. i think the outside world has a lot of misconceptions about china, and hong kong.
i used cantonese yesterday to a stranger. and she knew what i was saying. it was nice.
my grandma is pretty ill.
my grandpa has been buying a lot of property lately. he wants one of the grandkids to .. take over for him when he goes. and keep the assets growing. he wants one to move back to hong kong and "take over the business". it's strange to talk about it though. i dont' like writing in this in a public library. but anyway. he doesn't want to have his money divided up and just -- i think the guy beside me is trying to see what's on my screen. he's stretched out really strangely.. mabye it's because he thinks i'm tryign to read what's on his. because i was. -- spent. he wants to keep it growing. one of my uncles describes says it's as if he's trying to build a dynasty. i think he's recently come to realize the finality of death, and wants to feel as if he'll live on somehow. i guess its' teh same thing. when we talk about it though, and who will take over and so on, it feels very political. i've never wondered before, if money would make me fight with my brothers. i can't see it happening, but i was imagining what it would be like to be the one to take over my grandfather's assets. when we're all older, would everyone else expect me to always help them out when they need extra money? to pay for their children's educations? it'd be a tough spot to be in, especially since in that case, i'm not the patriarch of the family (that'd be a pretty difficult task for a female to accomplish anyway) but from the same generation as them. or maybe even younger..
seriously, this guy is so obvious. the guy beside me.
mark got new glasses. they're a little thick rimmed. he has fuzzy hair.
yesterday andrew wondered if generally, asian guys are less better looking than caucasian ones. i think it's just growing up with a different standard.
there are a lot of pictures of yoshi, my seattle cousin's newborn son, in the apartment. he's a really really chubby baby. his head is pretty much full-size already.
i like hong kong more this time around than last. i can see myself living here, at least for a little while.
we might be making a trip to see some pink dolphins. i don't really want to. whale-watching and stuff like that seems so disruptive to me.
i'm tired of the way things have been. i think it's time i moved out of childhood and started to really get going with my life.
this is nice library.